Tissue (Madison Griffiths, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
In 2021, during one of Victoria’s most arduous Covid-19 lockdowns, essayist and podcaster Madison Griffiths underwent the termination of a pregnancy. So begins Tissue, an insightful and perceptive critical analysis...
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Monday, 1 May 2023
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BookPeople shortlists, Writing NSW departures, record year for UK publishing
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Shortlists have been announced for BookPeople's Book of the Year Awards, ABDA's Australian Book Design Awards and the Institute of Professional Editors' Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. At Writing NSW, CEO...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Albanian translation rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to the Albanian Institute for International Studies. Children's/YA Affirm Press has...
Ella and Star (Michelle Wanasundera & Nichole Wade, Little Pink Dog)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
The word ‘heartfelt’ is what comes to mind upon closing the pages of Ella and Star. The winning team of Michelle Wanasundera and Nichole Wade, along with creative small press...
The Terrible Event (David Cohen, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
The Terrible Event comprises eight accessible, absurdist stories by David Cohen, past winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Each instalment is a tightly crafted pocket of madness, driven,...
Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Chinese Fish is a brilliant work of genre-bending prose poetry by award-winning poet Grace Yee. Full of subtle poetic turns, Yee’s narrative is an intimate look at a Cantonese family...
Gurril: Storm Bird (Trevor Fourmile, illus by Jingalu, Magabala)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Gurril: Storm Bird tells the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji (First Nations people from the Cairns area) traditional creation story of the origins of the black cockatoo and its call. Incorrigible young...
Endo Days (Libby Trainor Parker, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Libby Trainor Parker has written the perfect book adaptation of the cabaret show she performed in her PJs about endometriosis. The vibe? Women have been in pain, and ignored, forever....
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (Alison Goodman, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is a joyous romp through Regency England that is equally entertaining, revealing, feminist, heartbreaking and humorous. Our protagonist, Lady Augusta, is...
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Monday, 24 April 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Sales Fiction Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia and Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown Books UK have sold US/UK rights to Eliza Henry-Jones's 2022 novel Salt and Skin (Ultimo) to...
Walker Books announces manuscript prize, Age Book of the Year shortlists revealed
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
This week, children's publisher Walker Books announced the establishment of a new biennial manuscript prize to coincide with the company's 30th anniversary in Australia, while the 12 books shortlisted for...
Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Like her Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award-winning debut The Yellow House, Emily O’Grady’s Feast is a compelling but often uncomfortable work of literary fiction. In a secluded manor house in the Scottish...
The Interpreter (Brooke Robinson, Harvill Secker)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Revelle Lee is a court interpreter in London. She spends her days translating the words of victims, criminals and witnesses. It’s her job to inhabit them, wear their skin and...
Sunshine on Vinegar Street (Karen Comer, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Everything in Freya’s world has changed. Her dad has taken a job in Broome for the next 18 months and her mum has a new job in the inner-city Melbourne...
Monsties #1: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May, HGCP)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
The first in a new series, Monsties: The Lost Bunny will no doubt be literary candy for its target readership of 5–8-year-olds. The story is a frothy concoction of zany,...
We Need to Talk About Ageing (Melissa Levi, Hachette)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Melissa Levi is a clinical psychologist who intended to specialise in paediatric medicine. It’s a happy accident that she ended up helping the ageing instead. With We Need to Talk...
The Archipelago of Us (Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Originally written as part of Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s PhD thesis, The Archipelago of Us is a moving travel memoir mixed with a reflective story of trauma and healing. Pettitt-Schipp decided to...
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Monday, 17 April 2023
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Johnson joins Ultimo, new Master of Publishing scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, LBF rescheduled
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Ultimo Press has appointed Andrea Johnson as marketing and community manager, and the University of Sydney is offering a new scholarship in the Master of Publishing postgraduate degree for Aboriginal...
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has...
Queen Narelle (Sally Murphy, illus by Simon O’Carrigan, Walker)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Sally Murphy is one of the best verse novelists in Australian children’s fiction. Her tenderness, lyricism, poetic voice and sensitive handling of troubling themes are what make her verse novels...
Birdie Lights Up the World (Alison McLennan, illus by Lauren Mullinder, EK Books)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
From performer and voiceover artist Alison McLennan comes a story about a penguin who is thought to be the ‘chosen one’. Birdie is convinced she has the unique ability to...
Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Kicking the footy around in your backyard is fun, but playing with mates is even better! Jaru/Kija author Carl Merrison and illustrator Samantha Campbell score big with their lively, cumulative...
Sunday Skating (Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
This picture book is as warm and tender as a sunset glow upon a band of friends. Award-winning author and illustrator duo Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville follow the triumph...
Notes on Her Colour (Jennifer Neal, Vintage)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Gabrielle has inherited the gift of being able to change the colour of her skin from her mother Tallulah, and her mother before her. Yet Gabrielle grows up in a...
Minds of Sand and Light (Kylie Chan, Voyager AU)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Two rebel journalists get caught up in a conflict between secretive AIs in this new cyberpunk thriller. Minds of Sand and Light is set some 50 years in the future:...
Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, A&U)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
What would happen to Australia should Donald Trump win a second term as president of the United States? Such a situation seems an impossibility, yet the same was said for...
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Tuesday, 11 April 2023
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